When a single species, such as ancestor of the Galapagos finches, has evolved into several different forms that live in different ways we say that_ has occurred. A. adaptive radiation
B. coevolution
C. mass extinction
D. punctuated equilibrium

In terms of alternation of generations, the internal parts of the pollen grains of seed-producing plants are most similar to a ) moss sporophyteb) moss gametophyte bearing both male and female gametangiac) fern sporophyted) fern gametophyte bearing only antheridia

Which best explains why there are 64 possible codons in the genetic code and only 20 amino acids that make protiens of living organisms on earth

Which of the following scenarios is an example of the bottleneck effect? answers a in south africa, much of the afrikaner population is descended from a small number of dutch colonists. in this population, this is an unusually high frequency of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (pxe), an elastic tissue disorder. b four white-tailed deer are introduced to a park in finland. thirty years after their introduction scientists compare the genes in the population and find that there is no variation. c during the industrial revolution, london's air became filled with soot. as a result, birds started eating more of the lighter moths because they were easier to spot than their darker counterparts. over time, the moth population changed so that there were more darker moths than lighter ones. d 10% of the population of american alligators in an area have the recessive trait albinism. a massive flood results in the death of 80% of the population. of the remaining population, 60% have the recessive trait of albinism.